Gentle Reader:
Presented here are images (UPDATE: THIS LINK IS DEAD DUE TO TERMINATION OF YAHOO's GEOCITIES - sorry) of the many novels and short stories of Morley Edward Callaghan (1903-1990). I have shown the picture of the dust jacket or just the
front board if the DJ was missing or not issued with one. In some cases I have included examples of the
Callaghan's signature as well.
I hope you enjoy seeing these images as many early editions of his work are harder to find,
especially if one does not actually have the book itself. Recently
posted are the covers of some of the
magazines (THIS LINK STILL WORKS BUT IT IS JUST A SAMPLING OF MAGS) that
included the stories and articles by Callaghan. In case you were wondering the title of this web site takes its name from Morley Callaghan's first novel,
Strange Fugitive (1928).

Interest
in Morley Callaghan has been revived as of 2003. There is the CBC
mini-series called 'Hemingway Vs. Callaghan' that was filmed in Toronto and
Paris, a Life & Times CBC TV documentary, and also a four volume
series:
Morley Callaghan: The Complete Short Stories (Exile Editions).
His son, Barry Callaghan, is also re-releasing his novels in paperback form
through Exile Editions. Currently in publication are Strange
Fugitive and It's Never Over. The last major academic reappraisal of the Canadian writer was
done in 1980 at The Callaghan Symposium at the University of Ottawa.
Several critical works are also available, notably by Gary Boire, that shed
new light on Callaghan's life and work. What I do find interesting (in
a negative way) is that a Callaghan Fonds does not exist currently.
Yes, there are several places where the few letters and correspondence
exists, but they are in other writers fonds. One day, the Morley
Callaghan fonds should be centrally accrued by a university (any university,
i.e. U. of Calgary or U. of Toronto) were they can be accessed for research
purposes.

A
Google search of "Morley Callaghan" reveals that there over
(1600) 33,200 73,000 hits as of October 2005 June 2006. It was only
1600 just a few short years ago when I built this tribute page in 2002.
The increase can partially be attributed to Google's expanded search
capabilities, but also an increase in the number of online search engines
indexing the author's name.
And incidentally, you can place 'virtual' flowers and a note on his family's
grave site
online.
Indeed.

With all the preoccupation lately with J.K.
Rowling's Harry Potter series and several well publicized attempts by
her to stop imitators from publishing their works, no one has mentioned
Callaghan's original
1928 literary character in Strange Fugitive, Harry Trotter.
Well, Harry Trotter himself an orphan, admittedly did not have any magical
powers in the "sorcerer" sense, but there could have been a strange mark on
his face which may have been dirt or a cut after he was involved in a fight
early on in the novel. He, too, did do battle with a terrible evil,
figuratively speaking: bootlegging. Further to this idea of
similarities in literature on a more serious note, Robin Mathews put forward
a compelling thesis in 1981 that even in Callaghan's 1934 novel, Such is
My Beloved "has a distinct relation to the story "Grace" in Dubliners
by James Joyce and the interpretation of his novel, as well as the part
played by the Roman Catholic Church in his fiction." This goes to show
you that literature is not created within a vacuum and all literature does
have common themes and characters. Some more closely related than
others, I suspect.

I have been an avid reader and collector of
Morley Callaghan's work since 1987. While browsing for books his 1963 memoir, 'That Summer in Paris:
Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Some Others'
caught my attention.
The particular book was not the first edition. It was the cheaply
produced 1973 reprint paperback edition. I found it among the remainder
pile at my college bookstore. It was marked down from $1.00 to $0.50.
What a deal! With a title like this, I could not help but pick it up
and initially thumb through the pages to look at the black and white photos
of some literary greats: Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson,
Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce. Ever since then I have been reading anything of Callaghan's I could find.
Morley's youngest son, Barry, award winning author in his own right, publisher and
poet, also has a place in my book collection.
Now included here are images of some literary works by Callaghan that appeared in leading American and Canadian
periodicals such as Scribner's Magazine,
Esquire, Redbook Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Maclean's,
etc. Eventually, there will be images that feature books on or about Morley Callaghan.
Images presented are in thumbnail format,
so click on the image for a larger picture.

Because Morley Callaghan's
literary work is prodigious - beginning in the mid 1920's till his death in 1990
- I unfortunately do not possess a complete collection of everything that he has written.
If you see that you have something that you do no see here, please send
me the information so I could include it on this site. Better yet, if you have something
to sell, please
make me an offer!! And I always happily take
donations. Please feel free to contact me for your research
questions, too, as I have received some from students, educators and from the
Toronto Star already since creating this web site. While you are here, also see a brief Callaghan bio that I
maintain on
wikipedia.org. Additionally, here is another
link to Hugo McPherson's bio of Callaghan.
Happy browsing!

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